Unless you count the economic blackmail (threats of trade restrictions) of countries around the world to force them to adopt equivalent laws to US laws on topics such as drug enforcement, copyright, rights of unfettered operation of US companies etc.

A lot of that bullshit is as much the doing of Europeans as it is of Americans.

Unless you count active covert ops and financial support for the overthrow/assassination of disagreeable governments ... occupation ... invasion ...

Sorry, but that's not the same.

I remember seeing a power supply around 2004 that had one or more backup batteries that fit in trays in 5.25" drivebays so you could hot-swap them and they were internal to the server. A SOHO or retail server (for a handful of POS' ) with this and a couple of PCI multiport ethernet cards and a PCI docsis or DSL modem would do a lot to consolidate the IT equiplent and all it's power bricks and interconnections. Sadly I've not been able to find that type of power supply since.

I've had two iPhones, both of which were jailbroken within about 30 seconds of activation through iTunes. Why? Because... If I buy a computer from Dell, HP, Apple, etc I'm free to do as a please, install software as needed, patch stuff that needs patching, etc... When I buy a $700 iPhone(Not on contract, full price) I am essentially buying a tiny ass computer with all the capabilities of my desktop and laptops, just palm sized. So Why shouldn't I be able to develop for it and modify it as I see necessary? I'm not screwing with the Baseband, so I'm not going to take down a cell tower, I simply want to be able to run the apps I want to run.

I run

• iLocalis - For real time tracking of my iPhones location and state of operation
• Winterboard - To provide me with a much superior and insanely customizable UI
• iSSH and openSSH - To allow me to get diagnostic files out of apps, setup firewall rules, etc.. I've actually sent app diagnostic files to developers of iTunes App Store Applications to help them figure out why their app has wierd quirks
• IntelliScreen - To have a summary of my phone's e-mails, sms, calendar and news without having to unlock my phone
• MyProfiles - To provide me with greater flexability and automatic profile changing based on time of day and location(Automatically goes in to Vibrate Mode when I enter my office building during work hours, goes to silent mode when I go to bed)
• Misc tweaks to trick apps in to thinking they are always on WIFI so I'm not limited to the App Stores 10Mb GPRS Download Limits

Jail breaking is obviously not for everyone... IE, those who don't change the root password to their phone as per Rocks, Icy, and Cydia's warning when installing openSSH.

If Apple let people customize their phones like I detailed above, I'd really have no need for Jail Breaking. But I want specific features out of my phone, I'm ready to assume the risks, and lower battery life(which is why I have three chargers, 2 at home, 1 at the office because I only get a day and a half of battery life)

Yes, this is mildly off topic... But no, I do not think an Anti-virus for the iPhone will make things any better... Jailed phones don't need it, most jailbroken users are smart enough to not need it.

I've written enough code with good intentions and bad outcomes to shy away from messing with certain systems.

No amount of AV is going to protect against a user's stupidity.

And no amount of AV is going to protect against vendor/distributor stupidity either. Here we have a program, running on a non-firewalled device, which on install, instead of being non-functional, opens up to the whole world with a default password. This is not the 1990's people! In this day and age, I expect a program to be secure by default... whatever it takes, even if it means it is non-functional at install.

I actually have a jailbroken iphone on which I installed openssh. When I logged in I immediately realized the risk I was running and changed the password. However, between the time of installing openssh on my iPhone and the moment I changed the password there was at least a period of 5 minutes in which people could have hijacked the machine. Unforgivable. This distributor should be ashamed of himself.

We all know that contributing upstream bandwidth that you're already paying for anyways is NOT the same as paying $10 for a DVD, otherwise we would be doing that.

Many times I see people keep on seeding, even if the file is in multiple small RAR files (yes, some morons still distribute gigabyte files formatted for floppies). Those RAR files are utterly useless once their content has been extracted, and take up valuable hard disk space, yet people still leave them there and the torrent program - which also consumes resources - running.

Also, given the choice, I'd rather pay $20 to a pirate than $10 to a media company, since the latter will use the money against me. It is unwise to fund your enemies.

And that an encoding and seeding job can be done by one person or a small team but lead to thousands of people getting it, so yes it is a "tiny subset" that contributes meaningful work (time and effort to encode and edit), while most 'contribute' something that requires no effort on their part.

Apparently there's enough people contributing their efforts that everything that gets released in a digital format - and many things that got released in analog ones - appear on P2P within days of their release, if not earlier, usually multiple times. The reason there's no more people ripping movies and disinfecting software is that even the current labour force is ridiculously oversized relative to the task.

Nearly everyone in P2P community contributes everything they can be reasonably expected to, and many people far in excess of that. It is your argument that is absurd, saying that people dublicating effort only 2-5 times rather than 1000 times over makes them freeloaders.

And while I think copyright laws are too strict and prosecuting for reverse-engineering is horrible, I have to rage a bit at the "evil corporations pay only a small % of sales to artists, so it's okay to copy" argument. What percentage of money from P2P downloads go to the artist? What is 1% of zero?

I haven't made any such argument. I'm against copyright simply because it is sick that our entire society and communication technology is getting twisted out of shape just to financially benefit people who make pop songs. And, as the secret ACTA negotiation process once again demonstrates, it seems impossible to have copyright that stays reasonable, I say we're better off without it.

Not only is there preventative maintenance, which is proceduralized, there is constant performance monitoring software in most plants which is capable of seeing any change in performance, such as power vs load, vibration, temperature, and compute a performance index and report to the people in charge of that pump the moment something is out of tolerance. its part of the reason why nuke plants are online over 90% of the time on average in the last 10 years, compared to the 90s where nuke plants were up 60% of the time at best.

I'm pretty sure the EFF is tired of this crap, hence the request for prior art. I suppose though, that you're pointing to the fact that the patent is even considered, let alone issued.